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Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series

Edited by Alexander Lubotsky, Leiden University

The Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series publishes the results of a major Leiden University project identifying and describing the common lexical heritage of the Indo-European languages. Under the supervision of Alexander Lubotsky, an international team of historical linguists has for more than a decade researched, collected and integrated a growing corpus of linguistic data. The data is published in a series of etymological dictionaries and will be concluded by the publication of a large Indo-European Etymological Dictionary, deemed as a successor of Julius Pokorny’s standard work published in 1959.

The Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series is also available online.

In his Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon Rick Derksen discusses the etymology of Lithuanian, Latvian, and Old Prussian words while combining recent insights from comparative Indo-European linguistics with modern Balto-Slavic accentology.

The Etymological Dictionary of Persian is the most comprehensive and up-to-date work in the field of New Persian historical lexicology and etymology. It synthesizes the achievements of Iranian, and Indo-European, comparative linguistics over the last century with regard to the study of the...

Robert S. P. Beekes (Leiden University), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek

This dictionary is a treasure trove covering 2000 years of Ancient Greek: from Mycenaean via Homer and the classical period to lexicographers, such as Hesychius (5th century A.D.). It consists of 7500 entries with thoroughly revised etymologies. Each entry gives clear information about the origin...

This is the first etymological dictionary of Proto-Celtic to be published after a hundred years, synthesizing the work of several generations of Celtic scholars. It contains a reconstructed lexicon of Proto-Celtic with ca. 1500 entries.

This book provides an up-to-date description of the Indo-European lexical stock of Armenian with systematic inclusion of dialectal data. It incorporates the lexical, phonetic, and morphological material in the Armenian dialects into the etymological treatment of the Indo-European lexicon.

This book attempts to show that Proto-Indo-European is genetically related to certain other language families of Northern Eurasia, the Middle East, and the Indian subcontinent. For the first time, all aspects of the putative proto-language are treated: phonology, morphology, vocabulary, syntax,...

This publication is the first etymological dictionary of the entire Hittite lexicon of Indo-European origin. Furthermore it provides a thorough description of the synchronic phonological system of Hittite as well as a comprehensive study of the Hittite historical phonology.